Jeff Pierce
2nd degree connectionUX Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area
Jeff currently works in the Think Tank Team at Samsung Research America in San Jose. Before joining TTT, he was a project lead in the UX Innovations Lab in Samsung's UX Center. At Samsung he's exploring what the next generation of user experiences look like for a variety of computing devices. ... ...
Experience
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UX Engineer
Company Name Google
Dates Employed Nov 2017 – Present
Employment Duration 11 mos
Location Mountain View, CA
Making Android better. ... See more
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Company Name Samsung Electronics
Total Duration 5 yrs 7 mos
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Title Senior Principal Research Engineer
Dates Employed Sep 2015 – Nov 2017
Employment Duration 2 yrs 3 mos
Location Mountain View, CA
I'm the Software Lead for SRA's Think Tank Team under Pranav Mistry. ... See more
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Title Principal Engineer
Dates Employed May 2012 – Sep 2015
Employment Duration 3 yrs 5 mos
Location San Jose, CA
I joined the Think Tank Team in April 2014.
Previously I was a project lead in the UX Innovations Lab at Samsung's UX Center America. ... See more
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Company Name IBM
Total Duration 6 yrs
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Title Manager, Mobile Computing Research
Dates Employed Oct 2008 – Apr 2012
Employment Duration 3 yrs 7 mos
I led the mobile computing research group at IBM's Almaden research lab, which really means that I had an excuse to acquire and play with toys. ... See more
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Title Research Staff Member
Dates Employed May 2006 – Oct 2008
Employment Duration 2 yrs 6 mos
Location San Jose, CA
I explored how people use multiple computing devices and created a multi-device service platform at IBM Research - Almaden. ... See more
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Assistant Professor
Company Name College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Dates Employed Sep 2002 – May 2006
Employment Duration 3 yrs 9 mos
I led the Personal Information Environments research group in the College of Computing until I missed writing my own code and escaped to industry. ... See more
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Intern
Company Name Walt Disney Imagineering
Dates Employed Jan 1999 – May 1999
Employment Duration 5 mos
I worked with Alan Kay's team to implement a version of Alice in Squeak (http://www.squeak.org/Features/MultiMedia). ... See more
Education
Skills & Endorsements
Recommendations
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Before I joined Samsung Research I knew of Jeff only by name from the CHI world. When I joined Samsung I was lucky enough to land on the team he led where we explored innovative UX ideas for mobile devices. Without a doubt, Jeff is one of the quickest people I know at distilling, developing, and critiquing new ideas. He’s able to draw on a lot of interesting experience and apply practical analysis in clear, concise, and usually humorous ways. I can’t think of a project we worked on there that did not clearly benefit from Jeff’s leadership and input. He’s also one of those people who approaches onerous tasks with the attitude that it’s better to get it done and over with than it is to sit around dwelling on how onerous it is. Because of all that, our team managed to be highly productive and successful while having a lot of fun working together. Jeff would be a great team lead or individual contributor in any sort of research environment. I hope we get to work together again some time.
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Jeff has an exceptional ability to identify UX weaknesses. He designs, builds and launches masterful solutions to nebulous problems. He takes ideas from paper to prototype to reality. To do this, Jeff effortlessly flows between researcher, designer, engineer, project manager and salesman to bring his ideas to life.
I had the pleasure of being on Jeff’s team, collaborating with him on several mobile UX projects at the Think Tank Team in Samsung Research.
As a leader, Jeff routinely made time to encourage growth and exploration while listening to and entertaining new ideas from his team. He smoothly juggled project planning, impending deadlines and surprise executive demos to create a space that encouraged creativity and empowered us. Because of his mentorship, I have been inspired to become a UX engineer.
As a director, team leader or an individual contributor, Jeff has my highest recommendation.
Also, his well timed humor will lighten many tense situations.
Accomplishments
Jeff has 21 patents 21
Patents
- Platform and interface for providing user assistance in a computing system
- Electronic system with dynamic localization mechanism and method of operation thereof
- Interactive Graphical Object
- Synchronous communication coordination and handling
- Managing Updates in a Computing System Using Multiple Access Methods
- Platform for Interaction via Commands and Entities
- Managing Data Items Contributed by a Plurality of Applications
- Computing system with configuration update mechanism and method of operation thereof
- Managing a messaging state across multiple clients
- Location-based mobile application and service selection
Jeff has 16 publications 16
Publications
- From Data to Insight: Work Practices of Analytics in the Enterprise
- Comparing the use of social networking and traditional media channels for promoting citizen science
- Smart Phone Use by Non-Mobile Business Users
- Understanding Information Preview in Mobile Email Processing
- Creek Watch: Pairing usefulness and usability for Successful Citizen Science
- Phone n' Computer: teaming up an information appliance with a PC
- No Smart Phone Is an Island: The Impact of Places, Situations, and Other Devices on Smart Phone Use
- An Infrastructure for Extending Applications' User Experiences Across Multiple Personal Devices
- "It's on my other computer!": Computing with Multiple Devices
- Recent Shortcuts: Using Recent Interactions to Support Shared Activities
Jeff has 2 projects 2
Projects
- Spot
- Samsung Flow